Marine Renewable Energy as Alien: Social Studies of an Emerging Industry

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Introduction

These pages are maintained as an archive of our activities and publications. The Energy Walk landscape installation at Hanstholm continues, however, and you are still invited to participate.

Alien Energy is an energy research project conducting a comparative analysis of the impact and effects of renewable energy initiatives at several sites within Europe (Denmark, Iceland and the Orkney Islands, Scotland). Drawing its inspiration from the intersection of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies, the research project focuses on how green energy creates and reconfigures relations between humans, technologies and nature at particular project sites.

For more information please visit the individual project pages. For general questions about the project please contact Brit Ross Winthereik (Principal Investigator) or Laura Watts (Co-Investigator and Researcher in Orkney).

We are delighted to have public lectures by two renown international scholars, organised as part of the Alien Energy research project, on Wednesday 19 October (Stefan Helmreich) and Friday 21 October (Noortje Marres). Stefen HelmreichContinue Reading »

On November 12, 2015, we exhibited The Energy Walk in Denver as part of the Society for the Social Studies of Science’s new initiative to give voice to other kinds of contributions to our scholarshipContinue Reading »

Just launched! Ebban an’ flowan is the world’s first poetic primer on marine renewable energy. The book focuses on the Orkney islands, as the leading international test site for this nascent energy industry, and expandsContinue Reading »